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Anyway, don’t mess with Texas when it comes to moving.
The Lone Star State has returned to the top of the list of states where the most Americans moved in 2025, according to rental truck company U-Haul’s annual roundup. U-Haul calculates its “growth index” based on the net number of customers who rent trucks, trailers and other equipment in one state and abandon them in another state.
In 2025, Texas ranks as the No. 1 growth state for the seventh time this decade. Last year, it placed second behind South Carolina. Florida, North Carolina and Tennessee are also in the top five. The company said these five states also occupied the top five in 2024 and 2023, although in a different order.
Uhaul said Americans are choosing sunshine and warmer climates when deciding where to move. Eight of the top 10 are in the South. In contrast, eight of the bottom 10 states (those with the highest number of out-migrants) are northern states.
The biggest loser is California, ranked 50th, followed by Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts. The Golden State ranked last for the sixth year in a row, but its net loss of residents in 2025 was lower than the previous year, the release said.
Do politics influence where Americans move?
“Blue-state to red-state migration is a hotly debated political theme that became more prominent following the 2020 pandemic, and continues to be a prominent trend,” U-Haul said in a release accompanying the report.
“Seven of the top 10 growth states currently have Republican governors, and nine of those states went red in the last presidential election,” the release added. “Conversely, nine of the bottom 10 growth states have Democratic governors, and seven of those states voted blue in the last presidential election.”
Weather patterns and political decisions aside, “we know that life circumstances such as marriage, children, death in the family, college, work, and other events drive most moving needs,” John “JT” Taylor, president of U-Haul International, said in a statement.
